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Mobile apps and responsive websites are looking - and working - better than ever, as designers come to terms with the parameters involved. Smaller screens, it seems, do not necessarily make for poorer experiences.
If anything, the restrictions of mobile devices are focusing the minds of designers, which is always a good thing. It seems to me that the very best designs really stand out, and do a great job of understanding user behaviour on smaller devices.
I have collected a bunch of examples which go some way towards proving that mobile websites and apps can really look the part, while communicating functionality clearly. In most cases the screenshots link to portfolios, so do click on them.
I haven't tested all of these apps, not least because a few of them are design concepts, but I think they all show that mobile design can be very, very pretty indeed. If the user experience mirrors design (and it doesn't always!) then presumably these would all work well.
This weather forecasting app uses minimal design - primarily coloured bars - to reflect the conditions outside. Simple, and lovely.
A truly stunning interface for a journey planner app, by Netherlands-based Aldert Greydanus.
A conceptual (and flat) design for a calendar app. Needs a little more contrast perhaps, where the beige bar is.
Lightbridge Projects
A great use of coloured bars and iconography on this productivity app.
I love Riccardo Carlet's designs for Clyp, which has a gorgeous colour palette and uses shading really well.
There are lots of very smart UI touches too, as this gif shows...
Ski Buddy
A rather pretty app for those who love to move downhill at pace.
Here's another clean-looking design that may be appreciated by winter sports aficionados.
Smart Home
Numbers aside, there is a total absence of visible text on Eyal Zuri's design for this Smart Home app. Icontastic!
Medical Dashboard
Anton Aheichanlka favours a clean, minimalist approach for this dashboard widget.
Qatar Airways Flight App
This redesign for Qatar Airways is just about the prettiest travel-related app I think I've ever seen. Bravo!
SEO Monitoring App
They said SEO wasn't pretty. They lied. Here's a design concept for an SEO app, which should help the job-seeking Dawid Tcokz get hired.
Here is a collection of gorgeous screenshots and desktop icons for this mobile chat app.
Ideas In Digital
The mobile screenshot of this agency's responsive website.
Another good-looking weather app, by Gustavo Balestraci.
Emrah Gencer has created a clean UI for this app.
BBC Sport
The BBC's digital team continues to impress, and the recent update to its mobile product is well-designed and therefore very easy to use.
What do you think? Seen any others? Be sure to leave a comment below!
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Wow, app tastic!
When will we see econsultancy rolling out a beautiful mobile experience?
Word on the street says that mobiles are here to stay... ;)
Great collection Chris.
Iconography is rarely given the time it deserves. I'm really pleased to see so many great examples all on one page. Mobile is definitely pushing designers forward and as a result we're seeing lots of new and creative approaches to design, which is in turn pushing web design forward too. These are exciting times!
Thanks for sharing these!
@Stuart - It's been on the to-do list for years! We're going down the responsive route (actually, our Festival Of Marketing site is responsive: http://festivalofmarketing.com). Hopefully by the end of the year. How are you doing on the mobile front?
@Ian - Thanks Ian. There are tons of others out there. You can lose yourself for hours in the likes of Dribbble and Behance!
@Chris m.schuh.co.uk is highly effective, although perhaps not the prettiest. Around a third of our traffic comes from mobiles, so it's pretty important to us.
That being said, we're in the process of going responsive, launching a pilot site this side of Christmas and then the main Schuh site in the spring, removing the need for our current desktop, mobile & tablet sites. Really looking forward to it being live.
@Stuart - Nice one, you'll have to take lots of before and after screenshots and we can do a write up somewhere down the line. A third of all traffic is a huge number! Would love to discuss metrics!
That SnelTrein design, FABULOUS!!!
Is the Lightbridge app available? Looks great!
Wow, they look really good. Massive fashion for flat ui and cards. I fear though that in a few years we'll look back at these and say "that's so 2013"
Some good examples Chris. IMO it's always been important to design for different browsing environments, and the concept of "responsive" web design and cross device compatibility is actually as old as the web itself !
@Chris ... Great selection - well curated. These show-up most traditional businesses, which rarely think 'mobile-first' (it's easier to start from scratch of course). However are the examples mostly apps? Only IID looks like a responsive site, and it's brochureware so relatively easy to do responsively. Responsive sites are rarely 'made-for-mobile' (you can normally tell a mile off) and as Dr RWP says "[it's] as old as the web". 'Adaptive' produces a better result for complicated sites; smartphones, as opposed to tablets, need their own template if you are going to really make the GUI work for you, add mobile-specific functionality and limit the payload over cellular. Take the BBC Sport site (not app) - what you get on mobile is not what you see on desktop, and the result is superb. That's not to detract from these great examples, as I believe most are apps and all excellent. Well found, as ever.
@Stuart - good to hear big brands are realising the m.**** website is now dead. Responsive all the way.
@Chris - I always follow your posts and took some inspiration from you for developing our new responsive css for Lights4fun.co.uk. We launched yesterday and it's 99% there - just a few JS issues this morning which cropped up. I'd appreciate any comments you have (starting next week!).
In relation to your article, beautiful examples - the ones which work well look to be apps rather than responsive sites. It would be great to see a collection of killer responsive websites for 2014 which take into account design but also conversion.
@Matt ... 'm.' is a red herring. This is simply used when a different back-end is delivering the solution, for practical/legacy reasons e.g. transcoding as quick route to market for complicated systems with long lead-times for re-platforming, rather than say simple brochureware. An 'Adaptive' site - with a made-for-smartphone template alongside the desktop/tablet one - can be served through the www. and is what BBC, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook do. There is a huge misconception going on here; responsive is not what the 'big guys' in fact do. It's an entry-level solution/one for SMEs IF you can re-platform, just like transcoding/serving through the m. is a short-cut for massive sites. The consumer does not care about a re-direct to m. and it has no effect on your SEO. Responsive = good, Adaptive is better (in terms of UX). Responsive needs only front-end effort, Adaptive requires both front-end and back-end, so produces the best result but of course costs more. If only life were so simple ...
We just launched our new RWD site for Chevrolet Germany - www.chevrolet.de. Rolling all the other markets out in the next few weeks.
@Jonathan, get what you're saying totally. My angle is an SME running 1 back end on a budget.
Some top-notch examples here, I've been really into the BBC Sport app recently, actually told Sky Sports to move over - the UI is so intuitive and easy to use. Also, definitely going to give the Blue weather app a go! Nice to see a creative concept to go with stunning mobile app design.
We're currently trying to educate business owners on the benefits of mobile-optimisation - we've been blogging about it at http://www.mediademon.com/why-website-need-be-mobile-friendly/
We're in the process of designing a mobile site, and these examples are wonderful inspirational tools! More examples are always appreciated - so keep it up!
@Jonathan, adaptive is not the solution Google recommend, responsive is, so that is the route we have taken.
If you do responsive right, from mobile-first approach, it is the simplest and easiest solution for most businesses, especially ecommerce.
Perhaps a different story if you are the BBC. I accept that it is easier to conceptually think about different templates for different devices, but that a fluid layout with selected media-query driven stylistic changes can produce a more consistent user experience.
With mobile RWD has its place but I also think that a slimmed down version of your site just targeting the key tasks / subject areas is also a valid option.
Users on mobile devices have different priorities to those viewing on an ipad/desktop.
They are usually time sensitive and removing a lot of the noise from the desktop version onto a dedicated mobile version makes good business sense.
@Paul, I actually think that removing noise from the desktop site is good too, there is lots of good UX evidence that shows that a simpler UI is good for conversion as there is less chance for customer confusion or choice paralysis.
@stuart - funny that Google does not do for itself what it recommends! In fact, really they are suggesting it as an SME solution; it's in their interest for the long tail to mobilise. No big business does what Google recommends, because the UX is not as good as can be achieved with both responsive (client side) plus adaptive (server-side i.e. RESS) code. Everyone who builds client-side only responsive sites which are more than brochureware ends up realising that it works great on PCs and tablets but is poor on mobile. But budgets are limited, of course. Mcommerce check-out is a case in point. Fluid design, by definition, just moves things around - whereas real people use smartphones in a way that is different from how they use their PC and want other functionality. Sometimes, as @Paul says, you want to slim it down for the mobile user (why send megabytes over GPRS/3G when the device hides it, better that the server does the work), sometimes you want special mobile functionality e.g. take photo and submit, real location aware stuff. If only 'one size fitted all' ...
Great selection of mobile UI's here, well curated Chris.
The sense is that mobile design is forcing people to think much more about the UI being fit for purpose, which felt was too often not the case with desktop. Perhaps is the change of interaction to touch screen feels a bigger leap than a mouse, or maybe we've all just got a better grasp at the task at hand now. That said I'm sure it's just the practitioners, I've seen some bad mobile specific UI's as well, it just feels not as many as desktop.
Nice debate on the benefits/merits of adaptive to responsive. Responsive was a revolution that needed to happen, but at the end of the day mobile user needs are often going to be different to those of desktop user.
The grey area is going to be your tablet user sitting at home on the sofa doing tasks that might have "traditionally" be completed on a desktop being served an adaptive mobile version. But truly adaptive sites can address this.
Cheers Chris.
@jonathan I really don't disagree with what you're saying, it just feels like a very desktop-first point of view. We're a busy ecommerce site, and less than half of our traffic comes from desktops. I guess everyone's point of view will depend on their own traffic mix and predictions.
I can see a time in the next year where desktops will only account for a third of our traffic, and tablets will be more of an on-the go device and so will have mobile demand placed on them.
I can see the benefit of adaptive design for a media-rich site, but we are an ecommerce business who wants to trade as effectively as possible, as simply as possible. I will only complicate our sites as much as I have to in order to get the sale. If adaptive works for your business then more power to you, I just think it's an unnecessary complication for our needs.
Some great comments here and much to discuss. The responsive vs adaptive debate is definitely something I shall explore in more detail. Personally I favour the latter, as ultimately it's all about the user experience, and mobile users often behave very differently. There are no fixed rules of course - Stuart is bang on in this respect. Horses for courses!
Some great examples of design here. Will be interesting to see how the functionality fares behind these builds.
@Stuart would be interested to know how you are managing your responsive build and integrating with ecommerce back-end. We are currently building a new fully responsive and integrated site here at Silverstone.
@Stuart ... but you seem to be using adaptive. I get re-directed to m.schuh.co.uk (with a nice low bandwidth page size, for cellular, of only 179k). Your mobile site is great, but it's not a simple fluid grid. You are using, unless I am wrong, two templates - each may be responsive within itself, hopefully - one for smartphone and one for desktop/tablet. Ps, if as I believe you are building in-house then you could serve your smartphone template from your www. as well, as Google recommends, but it won't actually generate an extra ROI (see earlier points). Maybe we're all talking the same sense but the terminology is poorly defined. Anyway, love your site on mobile - it works and looks good (style and substance).
good debate!
quick note for clarity - the term 'adaptive' can also mean something else in mobile web design.
If you think of a responsive design as always being 100% wide, with the layout changing accordingly at various break points, adaptive is a bit more rigid, using set widths instead. So for example, an adaptive site would be 320px wide for anyone with a screen size of less than 600px, then you'd have a breakpoint there for anyone with a screen size less than 900px etc.
a slightly different technique to what is being labeled 'adaptive' here, which is using multiple sites (eg. m dot) vs one site that changes formatting
Thanks Elliot. Certainly it would be good to absolutely nail down the terminology, and to clarify the differences.
@Jonathan, thanks for that, we've worked hard on it. The 3 sites (there is a tablet one) are separate, we're working towards a responsive site that takes the very best from all three.
Sat on one of my browser tabs is the first internal test of our pilot responsive site homepage. I'm really pleased with it so far.
I'll be talking about it at Conversion Conference in October, if you'd like to hear more.
@Sibbs, I'll DM you through linkedin
@Paul - You wrote: "Users on mobile devices have different priorities to those viewing on an ipad/desktop."
Unfortunately, this perspective, known as "mobile context," has been shown repeatedly to not actually be true. A report by Google and Nielsen earlier this year found that 77% of mobile searches happen in locations where you would expect a desktop device to also exist–at home and in the office (source: http://www.google.com/think/research-studies/creating-moments-that-matter.html).
Design firm Yiibu point out that mobile users aren't always just looking for information. They're also reading while commuting, entertaining themselves while they wait in line, or browsing the web while watching TV. (source: http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/the-trouble-with-context)
In her A List Apart article, Karen McGrane cites another Google study that shows that 90% of people start a task on one device and continue it on another. Same task, multiple devices. (source: http://alistapart.com/column/windows-on-the-web)
My point? You can't infer intent just from the size of someone's screen, which makes stripped down mobile sites fundamentally flawed. People demand content parity. That means that good information architecture and ease in finding the information you want are more important than ever. And to Stuart's point, many (scratch that, most) desktop sites would benefit from less crap and bloat, too (this one included).
@Chris - Good pointers. It is what makes life difficult for designers.
I totally agree on your bloat point too - we are in the process of a big overhaul, as there is much wrong with our own UX.
@Chris - In retrospect, that was probably a low blow, so sorry if I offended you guys at all!
To better articulate what I meant: I'm here to read an article, but there's a lot of stuff that's trying to pull my attention away from that. Social links that follow me around the page. Ads. Job postings. Other articles. Interesting comments. More ads. Blinking! Flashing!
Glad to hear you guys are working on. Can't wait to see what the finished product looks like.
@Chris - Not at all, it's all fat for the fire! Too much blinking flashing shit is one of my pet hates, and hopefully this will all get sorted out soon.
Afternoon all,
I'm loving the responsive vs. adaptive vs. mobile optimised debate, a nice by-product of your blog Chris.
I think saying 1 is better than the others actually misses the point and is the wrong way to look at it. Start with understanding and defining customer needs first based on browsing data + usability studies. Work out what they're doing, when, why, how & where there are links with other devices. Only then can you get a good picture of what mobile means in the context of your business.
One you've nailed down that understanding, you can look at the tech solution. Perhaps it's purely responsive you need, great. But perhaps you actually do need an adaptive solution that caters for device specific behaviour. For example, i've found for some retailers the behaviour on Android varies to iOS. In such cases, a generic responsive design misses the boat.
Plus, in my opinion a common misconception is that responsive and adaptive are divorced. My understanding for discussing this with several developers is that you can build a fluid responsive code base and then make it adaptive. The advantage of the responsive approach is a single code base to manage which reduces complexity and cost of maintenance, hugely appealing to ecommerce teams.
Chris - it would be great to get a meet-up sorted to thrash out the tech/commercial implications of responsive/adaptive/mobile optimised. Any appetite at Econsultancy to get the wheels in motion - i'm thinking an informal mash-up soiree with panel discussion & audience input. It's a topic that is critical to the future of ecommerce yet there is lots of uncertainty and crossed wires (me probably included!).
@ChrisF ... you are right in that 77% are doing the same. But your implication is wrong, IMHO. The 23% who are doing things differently are precisely why mobile is not the same as desktop. If optimisation is valuable for much smaller segments then it's even more so for a quarter of the audience. The RoI potential of handling this difference is huge for anything but an SME. Plus just because I search for the same term does mean I want the same result (context). Searching for an airport from afar and before my flight might be about booking car-parking, but if I'm en-route or there already it might be to find out about where the gate is or my duty-free allowance; we can guess/optimise the journeys. There are many such examples where mobile is not delivering the same end-result; in retail (a recent econsultancy article said) you should drop all the upsells and add PayPal. You can't (shouldn't) do that with some CSS media queries.
@Elliot ... adaptive where the cut-off is say 320px is compatible with an m. approach, i.e. serve one template one side of the cut-off and another the other side, possibly from a different architecture if adding smartphone support to a legacy system. These terms are not really helpful unless one adds detail. Personally I think RWD is a lot more than fluid design but most people think that's it. Ditto adaptive doesn't say how you are adapting and whether FE or BE tech!
@Stuart ... just make sure that your new responsive site does not deliver 1MB of content to smartphones (which are mostly on cellular), compared with your present 172KB, or the UX will go down hill. So many 'responsive' sites suffer massive 'inertia'. What does everyone say; "if a page does not load in 7s you've lost the customer" (your m. home page takes 10s now, on 3G, and 46s on GPRS when I'm on a train ... 1MB and I'll be off to Clarks/ASOS/Office instead!).
But this all comes down to budget! There is no right answer, only complexity ... and that's why salaries are high in digital. Aren't we all lucky.
@James ... you've hit the nail on the head. Start at the beginning, with the consumer/your biz reqs.
BUT you can have your cake and eat it. If budget (both dev and maintenance) permits then a responsive smartphone template with a responsive tablet/desktop one - i.e. adapting between the two as the 'big guys' do, both from the www. - will give you the best UX and so ROI. But the initial outlay is going to be 10-15% more.
That's called RESS. RESS and RCSS together are [best practice] RWD. Note 'best' - doesn't mean that RCSS alone isn't 'good'. It's about building tech on-top of other tech as far as your budget allows.
@Jonathan, it'll be faster than the existing mobile site, with exactly the same HTML (3.9Kb) as the desktop site. Afterall, HTML is for only for semantically marking up content and as we will have feature parity and a consistent user experience the content should be the same. CSS will then give priority to different features dependant on screen size using a number of breakpoints, with fluidity between them.
That's just for launch, it will then give us an excellent starting point to refine further. Hopefully one of the advantages of a single template.
If it's not in the upper quartile for ecommerce sites page speed, I'll eat my hat.
"Work out what they're doing, when, why, how & where there are links with other devices."
My only concern with that type of approach—you may end up making some false correlations. When I redesigned http://pawsnewengland.com, we found that people weren't doing much their from mobile devices. That data could have led us to say, "We don't need a responsive site."
Since going responsive, though, traffic from mobile sites has increased by 4x. People are browsing lists of available dogs, submitting applications and more. The more I observe people on mobile devices, the more I believe that people will try to do anything they need to get done from their phones.
"a common misconception is that responsive and adaptive are divorced."
Thank you for bringing this up! The two are NOT mutually exclusive, and when used in conjunction, make a much more powerful pair. Luke Wroblewski calls this RESS (Responsive + Server Side).
@Jonathan -
"you are right in that 77% are doing the same. But your implication is wrong, IMHO. The 23% who are doing things differently are precisely why mobile is not the same as desktop. If optimisation is valuable for much smaller segments then it's even more so for a quarter of the audience."
Two quick thoughts on that:
1. That number has been growing for the last two years. Based on the behaviors I observe, I see it increasing still, not staying static. The web is everywhere, and we can't stop it.
2. You have no way of knowing, based on the size of device, what the person is there to do. You could ASSUME they only want directions or a phone number or what not, but your chances of being wrong are very high.
For me, the direction seems clear:
1. Adaptive design and progressive enhancement (not CONTENT) so that you're serving appropriate and appropriately sized resources based on the device and it's limitations or capabilities.
2. Fluid layouts that provide the same content to everyone.
3. A focus on performance as a key design feature—whether the person is on a desktop, smartphone, refrigerator, TV, or whatever.
4. REALLY strong information architecture. Identify common use cases and workflows, and make it easy for the visitors themselves to find the content that fits THEIR desires.
Point number 4 may be the most important. It's arrogant to assume that we as designers and developers can know exactly what a person wants from our site. Our job should be to make it easy for them to get where they want to go.
@Chris, I have to agree with that 100%!
This is exactly the philosophy we're adopting with the new site. I guess there are two aspects to it:
1) responsive relaunch to give the users a better experience
but more importantly
2) to give us a great sprint board to concentrate on evolving the user experience, especially your points 3 & 4
the relaunch is not a fait accompli, it's just a step up on our journey.
@James - I'll fire over an email and include a few people. Certainly something that we should do more things around...
Sounds like we're all in agreement. Of course one never knows - that's why you test different journeys on different platforms. I'm going to the pub where the staff are lovely and responsive.
Amen to @Chris F approach and especially the view that "Our job should be to make it easy for them to get where they want to go".
You can never exactly know a visitor's intentions, I don't always know my own intentions when i pick up my phone, but through data modelling over time you can better estimate this and predict likely next actions and serve content/features/functionality to suit.
@Chris L - it would be brilliant to get something organised and involve people from this thread. It's an area of hot debate and adding a balanced voice to the industry with a clear explanation of pros & cons would I believe help most ecommerce teams. I'd be happy to get involved and help make it happen (though i'd never position myself as a tech expert, more someone with a keen view on the commercial implications).
Sounds like we need to get @Chris F, @Stuart and @Jonathan involved....
Sounds splendid! I actually just discovered eConsultancy today when someone tweeted out a link to this post, so I'm actually still trying to make sense of what "this" all is. =)
Chris, Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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We are in the process of rebuilding (currently in test) our Discovery experience in a responsive framework, and its a challenge, but combining this work with the creation of a responsive pattern library has really helped what we are doing, and enabled us to start to do the rest of the experience in a much faster way. We will have had it all done in 3 months.
The debate we always have had is whether to wait until its all done and then roll it out, or drop it progressively to the user, which we are going to do, focusing first on the more used paths that our data tells us.
We are contextualising the content that is in the users screen based on viewport, and data that backs up the use cases around what people are using their devices for.
@Stuart - the work you guys are doing is great, and I think you are very much ahead of the curve for eCommerce sites.
I read another one of these examples earlier this week, and the examples shown for responsive eCommerce sites were shockingly bad. Big brand names and identity don't enable user experience!
Browsing a website, that is purely content driven is no where near as much of a challenge as a commercial site, and it would be great to get eCommerce guys around a table to discuss the best practices. :) I'm for that!
Great thread, very topical! Let's be honest as well, despite ALL the talk about adaptive, responsive, contextual blah - not many companies are actually doing this STILL, so however your making progress to try and serve your users better - your still doing more than most!
Nice, really like the current trends - simplicity!
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Really inspiring designs.
it's really interesting how responsive websites have come to life in the last couple of years.
I remember when I had my first iPhone, all I was doing on safari was zoom in and out.
Mobile apps and responsive designs are the future. I love to see them in simple, elegant, and minimalist look.
I'm glad to see that mobile is getting more colorful.
We just started using a mobile website too and it has really been a real success for our business.
Really recommended.
Amazing designs,
I would love to get one of these for my site :))
These are mostly apps, that's a different ball game. The real challenge is websites, especially when a client has got a heavily invested site that they expect to see substantially reflected in their mobile site. I'd love to see your list of mobile sites alongside their 'desktop' sites so we can see how well they've addressed this very difficult challenge.
Thanks for the great post! They say a picture is worth a 1000's words and I enjoyed the fact that you took the time to showcase the different mobile designs with screenshots.
Wow, some great inspiration right there!
A sound mobile strategy and user-centric app design is key to app adoption and success . Here is an article we wrote on what not to do while designing mobile apps http://mlabs.boston-technology.com/blog/the-7-cardinal-sins-in-app-design
Wow. This is an outstanding post. According to the recent statistics published by Juniper Research, it has been estimated that there would be an exponential growth in the number of mobile web users by 2014. The number of mobile web users will climb up to 2.4 billion from 1.2 billion.http://www.shivam.com.au/website-development/mobile-website-design.html
Talk looks really nice. VSCcam App would also be a great addition to this list.
Amazing designs,
The Kipcall collection of gorgeous screenshots and desktop icons for this mobile chat app is my favourite from the list!


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When Im astral, I can push my hand throu a wall but it's still not easy and effort, its like the wall is a substance of some resistance, it gives but I really have to push throu it. I used to often get stuck in my bedroom if I had my bedroom door closed due to the effort needed to get myself throu a wall.
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lol a master in LD? Nope, but I do have some experience under my belt (we do now have a 70 year old master at this site , I got a way to go yet). I wouldnt call myself a Master unless I felt like I'd learnt all I could from LD and Im still learning stuff like everyone else here, I have a heck of a lot of questions Im still trying to find the answers too. I would like thou to run classes in real life on this and may do that some time. I see myself more as a possible teacher.
There are no right or wrong for how people perceive in their LDs, we all are different, we all think different and hence we all will experience differently. So thou Ive answered your question differently, it doesnt mean the others replies are wrong in anyway at all.
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South African warning for beach goers because of TV show
Posted 11 April 2012 - 07:27 AM
There's a bit of local politics and scare mongering. But it does raise a few questions:
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:54 AM
Also not a fan of the show and think that Dirk Schmidt has a couple of valid points. However check out this statement from respected shark scientist Alison Koch regarding Dirk's petition... Seems there's been a lot of misinformation all round...
Shark Spotters Statement regarding Shark Men
Posted 12 April 2012 - 06:59 PM
Here's Alan Boyd's(the guy who allowed the permit to chum) reply:
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 02:38 AM
Chumming for the TV production has been stopped.
Edited by Kevster, 20 April 2012 - 02:40 AM.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:11 AM
Very sad about the attack, as always which will ramp up an already highly charged situation.
Erol Eriksson
Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:46 AM
These guys may have a lot to answer for
Edited by Kevster, 20 April 2012 - 07:07 AM.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 04:47 AM
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 06:50 AM
I'd want to know if the chum actually trailed to Caves/Kogel Bay and how many ppm, that'd be the only damning evidence if any.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 07:00 AM
any guestimate on the distances involved from where they were chumming and where the guy got bit?
Hi Kevin!
Assuming they where chumming around Seal Island the attack would have been 30km+ away.
I am not familiar which the show so have no comment on that front. At this stage, however, my thoughts go to the victims friends and family.
A sober analysis of the impacts that the chumming had (if indeed they where chumming on that day) can be undertaken at a later stage.
The loss of another young life, which cannot be replaced, regardless of where we would like to apportion blame. A sad day, for all of the Cape Town surf community.
Erol Eriksson
Posted 20 April 2012 - 07:09 AM
Completely agree
At this stage it has to be said that the pattern is similar to many prior attacks on surfers/swimmers, with one bit causing death due to blood loss. After the bite the shark showed no interested in following up the attack with the body drifting ashore. Based on this is it likely to be a juvenile shark exploring prey options.
Also in common with many attacks in the area there was feeding activity seen in the vicinity, which would account for the presence of the animal.
Based on the weather the Westerly/SW wind would have driven the 30l of chum used towards Muzienberg, away from the location of the attack.
Again none of this information helps the family and friend of David Lilienfeld cope with what is clearly another tragic incident in False bay.
Edited by ErolE, 20 April 2012 - 07:16 AM.
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Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:03 PM
Posted 20 April 2012 - 03:29 PM
Not that I'm an advocate of Shark Men but data like this:
is pretty awesome to know. TV brings in much needed money for research... as do Sheiks, oil companies etc. (Sorry SOS, couldn't resist!) Irrational fear is one thing, but when people spout fear for politicking and fear's sake, it's detrimental to learning and progress. Sorta like aquariums etc, except there's quantifiable data garnered like migration habits etc.
Erol, wind is only one (major) factor. The chum could ride currents etc. The possibilities are plentiful which means it can't be easily proven with present technology. I'm pretty sure the families of the deceased would like to know definitely how it happened and that it can be avoided/prevented.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 10:38 PM
Helicopter operators in Plett confirmed the presence of multiple large sharks close inshore on this side of the coast. Last week we had pockets of sardines close inshore.
Shark attack could happen again . It could be that the sea conditions, Sardines building up , is responsible for the presence of sharks irrespectable of what the Shark Men are getting up to.
Edited by aboshoff, 20 April 2012 - 10:42 PM.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 10:43 PM
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 20 April 2012 - 11:10 PM
Edited by aboshoff, 20 April 2012 - 11:15 PM.
Posted 21 April 2012 - 01:30 AM
Organizations like Sharkspotters, have also increased vigilance over shark presence. But there is no Shark Spotter activity in Kogel Bay.
However, those incident stats still give those who are against chumming for dives (for whatever reasons) ammunition, right or wrong. Increased population activity, increased great white population and increased shark activity around Seal Island, not to mention boats dumping their crap in the water in the bay. All these things play a factor and trying to assign majority blame is bad science and mostly voodoo!
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 21 April 2012 - 03:05 AM
Personally I'm not against catching and releasing sharks for scientific purposes - I've done it myself - but their approach and the systems they employed were more geared for good TV and sports fishermen high adrenaline thrills than they were for the welfare of the sharks that they captured. Quite frankly anyone who watched their Guadalupe 'show' and was not appalled should hang their head in shame.
However my point was that many respectable conservationist who would never normally hang their hat in the Sea Shepard direct action corner were outraged that the Shark Men TV program had been given permission to catch white sharks when it goes against every current law in South Africa. Let's be clear, no mater what 'personalities' are involved in an attempt to give this legitimacy, this has very little to do with science or good practice and an awful lot to do with ego, money and TV ratings.
Anyway that is the most diplomatic answer I can summon so I better not say any more or I'll end up getting myself in trouble....
Posted 21 April 2012 - 03:30 AM
Whilst there maybe many other factors involved, tide, bottom currents, longshore drift etc, surface current is generally driven by wind. Where wind is negligible other factors may dominate, but in the strong wind over the weekend, this is likely to be the determining factor.
Aside for arguing the oceanographics of the bay, it is clear that that is a bad result for the South African shark tourism. Particularly when movements such as this are becoming more vocal, supported by high profile surfers, photographers and magazines. http://www.stopshark...iving_facts.htm
That virtually all their ''facts'' are based on supposition, innuendo and anecdote doesn t seem to offset the perceived weight of their argument.
Edited by ErolE, 21 April 2012 - 03:33 AM.
Erol Eriksson
Posted 21 April 2012 - 04:16 AM
Unfortunately, as a rule, good TV is about entertainment first and science is secondary. The show's methodology is definitely brings out the villagers with pitchforks and torches! The cost/benefit analysis should be looked at. Has Mike Domeier's data been useful? I mean the theatrics is one thing but someone like Mike, who's done some great research on great whites and marlin, has to be justifying it with the data collected. I have to say, there is no easy way to land a big great white to do all the stuff they want, but most importantly the sat tag which lasts longer than any pole attached ones. It's not like one can use a tranq and reel it in.
I think it's very excessive but if there's good data coming out of it, it may turn out to be a good thing in the long run. He's been doing it for 3-4 years now and he's published several papers. It'd better be worth the flak he's getting now.
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 27 April 2012 - 04:55 AM
In the wake of the unfortunate death of the bodyboarder Mr. David Lilienfeld during a shark attack at the Caves in Kogal Bay, False Bay, explorer Chris Fischer from OCEARCH and collaborating scientists on the expedition have come under severe criticism from certain members of the public. The ferocity and timing of the attack, and details of chumming being practiced to lure sharks to the vessel OCEARCH in False Bay for capture and scientific sampling, were alleged to be linked by these members of the public giving rise to condemnation. The critics argue that the expedition was to blame for causing a chum slick that resulted in sharks being present at the location of the attack, and/or causing the aggressive behavior of the shark responsible for the attack, possibly through conditioning (i.e. association of humans with food) or handling, or all of the above. The scientists collaborating on the OCEARCH expedition offer a broader and more objective perspective regarding both the activities of the expedition and the likelihood that the activities led to the fatal shark attack on April 19, 2012.
Considerable attention has been given to the documentary aspect of the OCEARCH project and speculation exists that the research being conducted during the expedition is driven by television. This the scientific team of the expedition, consisting of over 30 leading South African and international shark researchers from more than 16 institutions, would like to categorically deny. We have been very impressed by the manner in which the OCEARCH crew and production company have fulfilled their commitments to us (namely providing resources and expertise for the capture and release of sharks for scientific purposes) without compelling us to deviate from our accepted scientific protocols. The sampling protocols for this project are based on the latest scientific knowledge and are the most comprehensive that have been developed for shark research in South Africa to date. Research requiring invasive procedures has been assessed by animal ethics committees of participating institutes (e.g. the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town) and ethical standards are rigorously monitored by senior state veterinarian Dr Pieter Koen, who has been on board throughout the expedition.
White sharks have been protected in South Africa since 1991. The basis of this protection was precautionary because consumptive exploitation of white sharks (as trophies and for the fin trade) may have become unsustainable. Since protection was introduced, scientists have been mandated to conduct research to produce the data required to monitor the health of the white shark population, and to determine whether existing legislation was adequate to ensure conservation and sustainable non-consumptive use of the species in South African waters. Due to limited funding the scientific community of South Africa was struggling to meet these objectives. The partnership with OCEARCH has offered an unprecedented opportunity to achieve our mandate to produce the knowledge required, using equipment and manpower resources that would otherwise be beyond our reach. Collectively the scientists involved in this project (their names and affiliations are given below) have been responsible for advancing the state of knowledge on South Africas sharks over the last 20 years through 60 peer reviewed papers on great white sharks and over 250 peer reviewed papers on other shark species. The expedition is the largest collaborative shark project yet in South Africa (and quite possibly the world).
The OCEARCH expedition lists ten research aims pertaining specifically to white sharks to address the globally limited understanding and poor conservation status of the species which is classified as Vulnerable in terms of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Four of these aims are highlighted as follows: (i) To describe age and gender specific range, distribution and movement behavior of South Africas white shark population, (ii) to contribute to critical population studies by collecting photographic identification data of individual sharks, (iii) to assess the national and international stock structure of white sharks via genetic analysis, (iv) to examine the reproductive status of individuals via blood Specifically the use of SPOT satellite transmitters will enable us to monitor the daily movements of each study animal for a period of up to five years. These data will be used to identify the critical habitats, migratory pathways, range and distribution of this species in southern African waters and further afield. In addition, the use of internally placed RCODE acoustic transmitters will allow monitoring of the coastal movements of animals for up to 10 years showing their seasonal use of different habitats such as embayments and the near-shore zone. Knowledge generated in this way can capacitate resource managers to effectively mitigate threats to this species by developing effective conservation and management measures. Such knowledge may, for example, include identification of areas where white sharks are vulnerable to exploitation, identification of habitats that are critical for mating, birthing, and feeding, and insight as to whether our white shark stock can adequately be conserved locally or whether regional or international cooperation will be necessary. Of relevance here is that one of the study animals has subsequently swum into Namibian waters and two others have entered the high seas.
Knowledge of white shark distribution (spatial and temporal) and habits is also relevant to the mitigation of shark-human conflicts. A further aim of the expedition that has particular relevance to shark attacks is (v) to advance bather safety through near real time, high precision tracking of coastal white shark behavior. Yet another (vi) is to advance the treatment of shark attack victims by sampling pathogenic bacteria colonies occurring in the mouth and on the teeth of white sharks.
What is the likelihood that the OCEARCH activities contributed to David Lilienfelds death?
Firstly, we would like to clear up any misconceptions about the amount of chum that that we used in False Bay. Certain members of the public have alleged that this amount was 5 tonnes. In fact, the quantities were as follows: approximately 10 kg of sardines over a 2.5 hour period on Sunday 15 April (our first day of research at Seal Island, False Bay) and approximately 24 kg over an 11 hour period on the Monday 16 April. To put this into perspective, each of the 80-100 12-man handline ski-boats that launch at Rumbly Bay during the snoek season will use 60-80 kg of baitfish in one day of fishing in False Bay. At no time was marine mammal used to chum. The chumming was monitored and guided by Dr Pieter Koen (senior state veterinarian), a Department of Environmental Affairs Ocean and Coasts official and a City of Cape Town official (Sunday only) and Ms. Alison Kock (Shark Spotters).
All of our research in False Bay was conducted within 300 m of Seal Island, some 26 kms away from the location of the attack. White sharks naturally aggregate at the seal colony during this time to predate on Cape fur seals which is the reason the research team choose to work there and merely sampled sharks already in the vicinity rather than attract sharks into False Bay. During these operations, the predominant wind direction was SE, therefore any chum would have drifted in the opposite direction to the location of the attack and due to the amount for a few hundred meters only. We concluded our research activities on mid-afternoon of Monday 16 April, three days before the fatal attack. The vessel then travelled to Struis Bay/San Sebastian Bay over 200 km away where we continued with research on the Tuesday and Wednesday. On the day of the attack, the OCEARCH vessel was at Gansbaai, 70 kms distant from the location of the attack.
The shark that attacked David Lilienfeld was not one of the study animals. We had captured and tagged four sharks in the vicinity of Seal Island during the two days. On three of these we attached a SPOT tag to the dorsal fin, but in the case of the other animal, the dorsal fin was deformed (bent over to one side), so we released her without a satellite tag There was no evidence of a SPOT tag or of a deformed dorsal fin on photographs that were taken of the shark that attacked Mr. Lilienfeld. Moreover, regular, reliable signals have been obtained from two of the three instrumented sharks following deployment, providing highly accurate locations both prior to and after the time of the attack. The behavior of these two sharks appears normal, with activity mainly focusing around Seal Island as well as inshore in known white shark habitats near Strandfontein and Macassar. Until now, neither shark has moved close to Kogel Bay.
Previous white shark tracking research in False Bay shows without a doubt that Kogel Bay is repeatedly used by white sharks during winter and summer months. Wherever large sharks and people share the same space, there is potential for conflict. Especially in summer, the movements of white sharks in the inshore areas of False Bay bring them into close proximity to popular recreational areas, where a steady increase in the numbers of people using the surf zone has probably increased the potential for shark-human interactions. From 1960 to the present, there have been 28 known shark attacks in Cape Towns waters. The attack on David Lilienfeld was the sixth of these that was fatal. Davids death was just as sad and shocking to the scientists and crew on board OCEARCH as it was to the public. Several of us are also keen surfers or body boarders. It is unfortunate that certain members of the public have attempted to account for the incident by attaching blame to the OCEARCH expedition. There is no reasonable evidence to support the contention that we played any role in provoking the attack, the timing of which we maintain was purely coincidental with regard to our research that took place near the opposite end of the Bay a few days prior.
In conclusion, it is very unfortunate that misinformed criticism has led to the premature termination of this unique and valuable research expedition and we request the immediate re-instatement of the permit to continue the research.
List of the scientists collaborating on the OCEARCH research projects (including student supervision, technical support and veterinary support)
Dr. Malcolm Smale Bayworld (Project leader)
Dr. Pieter Koen State Veterinary Services
Ms. Meaghen McCord South African Shark Conservancy (Project leader)
Mr. Ryan Johnson University of Pretoria (Project leader)
Mr. Geremy Cliff KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board (Project leader)
Dr. Sheldon Dudley KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board
Ms. Sabine Wintner KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board
Dr. Nigel Hussey University of Windsor (Project leader)
Dr. Les Noble Aberdeen University
Professor Marthan Bester University of Pretoria
Professor Susan Dippenaar University of Limpopo (Project leader)
Dr. David Delaney Oceans Research (Project leader)
Mr. Enrico Gennari Rhodes University
Dr. Paul Cowley South African Institute of Aquatic Biology
Mr. Dylan Irion University of Cape Town
Ms. Alison Kock University of Cape Town (Project leader)
Ms. Alison Towner University of Cape Town (Project leader)
Mr. Oliver Jewell University of Pretoria
Mr. Adrian Hewitt University of Cape Town (Project leader)
Ms. Madie Calitz Ampath
Ms. Kathy Cummings Oceans Society
Mr. Adam Johnstone Oceans Research
Dr. Matt Dicken Bayworld (Project leader)
Mr. Kyle McHugh University of the North West
Dr. Aaron Fisk University of Windsor
Dr. Adam Barnett University of Tasmania
Mr. Ryan Daly Rhodes University
Ms. Michelle du Toit Bayworld
Mr. Justin Blake Rhodes University
Mr. Andre Faul Oceans Research
Mr. Tristan Scott University of Pretoria
Ms. Michelle Wcisel University of Cape Town
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Harold J. "Harry" Trievel, 76, of 531 85th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL, died Thursday, February 17, 2011 at Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg. He was born Dec. 22, 1934, in Philadelphia, son of the late Harold M. and Rose M. Higgins Trievel. On July 12, 1958, he married Concilia M. Martino, who preceded him in death on July 14, 2007. He had been a Florida resident for 25 years, while also spending a great deal of time in Ridgway. Prior to Florida, he resided in Philadelphia and then Ridgway. He was an Air Force veteran prior to becoming a K-9 Police Officer in Philadelphia, eventually retiring to Ridgway in 1975. He was a member of St. Leo's Catholic Church, Holy Family Catholic Church (FL), the Knights of Columbus, the Sons of Italy, the American Legion, and the Elks Lodge. His other interests included spending time with his family and friends, as well as hunting and fishing.He is survived by four children, Karen (Olivio) Casale, Colleen (Brian) Kesneck, Carol (Daniel) Feeley, and Joseph Trievel (Susan), all of St. Petersburg; seven grandchildren, Michael, Jenna, Sara, Erin, Ryan, Joey, and Vincent: two great-granddaughters, Kara and Mikayla; a sister, Mrs. Rosemary (Gordon) Bennett of Philadelphia, a brother, James Trievel of Vermont; and several nieces and nephews.Besides his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Michael, and two brothers, Thomas and Joseph.A Mass of Christian Burial for Harold J. Trievel will be celebrated at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Kersey on Saturday at 12 p.m., with Fr. Brian Vossler, pastor of St. Leo's Catholic Church, officiating. Interment will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens. Friends will be received at the Meehan-Shilk Funeral Home on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. The Elks Lodge of Sorrow will be held in the funeral home on Friday evening at 6:45 p.m.Military honors will be accorded by the Ridgway Military Honor Detail.Memorial donations may be made to St. Leo's Catholic Church, Ridgway; or to Holy Family Catholic School, St. Petersburg, FL.


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Though University of Montana Western biology alumni Kyle Lund's work may be on a small scale — nano, actually — it's getting a lot of big attention.
Lund, a 2004 UMW graduate, worked collaboratively with a group of scientists who recently had their work on nano-spiders, or "DNA robots," published in the journal Nature and magazine Discover.
Lund designed his own robot, or spider, first in a computer program before actually creating the spider's body using nanotechnology. Lund formed the spider's body out of a molecule called streptavidin and the legs out of DNA molecules. The scientists also created a synthetic DNA landscape called DNA origami, which allowed them to control the direction of the robots.
Lund and his colleagues hope the nano robots will be able to help doctors deliver drugs to very specific areas of the human body.
"The professors we worked with at Colombia University were trying to develop spiders that could bond to a cell surface, carry and release cargo," Lund explained. "That cargo could be a drug, insulin, for example."
Such complex work took a lot of research, and Lund said he first learned the importance of good research while he was pursuing his undergraduate degree at Montana Western.
"Working at UMW was the starting point for me," Lund said. "It got me interested in doing research and prepared me for grad school."
Lund went on to graduate school at Arizona State University where he received a master's in chemistry and a Ph.D. in biochemistry. Lund is currently a Captain in the United States Army at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.
Lund hopes his contributions to the nano spider project could help the U.S. military in developing a treatment for botulism. No treatment currently exists.
"To me, it's fun to try and develop something that somebody could use," Lund said.
As Lund continues his groundbreaking and potentially life-changing work, he admits the simple intrigue of the unknown is still one of the most rewarding aspects of his new career.
"The mystery of it all intrigues me," Lund explained. "Putting puzzle pieces together is fun for me. I really enjoy that aspect of research."


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Voices in Harmony, formerly known as the County Connection chorus is a rapidly growing 50-member women's a cappella chorus from Ypsilanti, Michigan. We are a non-profit community chorus - affiliated with Sweet Adelines International, a worldwide singing organization for women - and provide fun, exciting, and innovative entertainment with a variety of music sung in 4-part harmony.
Voices in Harmony has found a perfect blend and balance of people and activities, of tradition and innovation. The chorus strives to be the best singers we can be both individually and as an ensemble, and thrives on education and experiences that expand our knowledge and skills as singers and performers. But we are also a fun-loving family who understands the importance of laughter and friendship.
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[Note: The symptoms of these patients with POTS (suggesting "post treatment Lyme disease syndrome") were helped significantly by drugs typically prescribed for orthostatic dysfunction. To read the full text pdf of this article click HERE ]
Background: A subgroup of patients suffering from Lyme disease (LD) may initially respond to antibiotics only to later develop a syndrome of fatigue, joint pain and cognitive dysfunction referred to as 'post treatment LD syndrome'. We report on a series of patients who developed autonomic dysfunction in the form of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
All of the patients in this report had suffered from LD in the past and were successfully treated with antibiotics. All patients were apparently well, until years later when they presented with fatigue, cognitive dysfunction and orthostatic intolerance. These patients were diagnosed with POTS on the basis of clinical features and results of the tilt table (HUTT) testing.
• Five patients (all women), aged 22-44 years, were identified for inclusion in this study. These patients developed symptoms of fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, orthostatic palpitations and either near syncope or frank syncope [faintness on rising to upright position/standing].
• The debilitating nature of these symptoms had resulted in loss of employment or inability to attend school.
• Three patients were also suffering from migraine, two from anxiety and depression and one from hypertension.
• All patients demonstrated a good response to the employed treatment.
• Four of the five were able to engage in their activities of daily living and either resumed employment or returned to school.
Conclusions: In an appropriate clinical setting, evaluation for POTS in patients suffering from post LD syndrome may lead to early recognition and treatment, with subsequent improvement in symptoms of orthostatic intolerance.
Source: Journal of Cardiology, 2011; vol 18(1):63-6. PMID: 21305487, by Kanjwal K, Karabin B, Kanjwal Y, Grubb BP. Section of Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,The University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, USA. [Email: email@example.com]


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TZN Gaming Presents: RAGEQUIT 1.3 (FREE-to-Enter ONLINE SFV Tournament with Top-3 Payouts)
Presented by TZN Gaming, RageQuit will also be a Qualifier for TZN's Offline Events!
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- "Blind Picks" are generally not afforded in an Online Tournament.
- It is the Responsibility of the "Winning Player" to Report the Match Score.
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- Stage will be random select. Beach, Plane, and Training stage are Soft-BANNED! (If Both Players Agree, Match will Play-On)
- Not Character Locked, However, Only Loser may switch Character for next Set, but Winner must stay with same Character.
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SOURCE: Stratos Product Development
February 14, 2013 12:46 ET
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Feb 14, 2013) - Stratos Product Development, LLC today announced its President, Sean MacLeod, will lead a presentation for executives on innovation at the Frost & Sullivan Medical Devices Executive Mind Xchange on March 12, 2013 in San Diego, California. MacLeod will co-present with Jennifer Samproni, Senior Manager, R&D, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics.
In a presentation titled "Mapping the Innovation Maturity Curve," MacLeod and Samproni will discuss what it takes to build a mature, sustainable innovation engine. They will share wisdom gained from experiences in the development of many medical devices, and lead an open discussion to help attendees discover how mature their own innovation practices are and how to enhance their organization's ability to continue to evolve.
"Medical device development is one of the most rigorous business activities a company can undertake," Sean MacLeod, President, Stratos Product Development said. "It can be tempting to try to achieve innovation instantly, but true innovation is based on a careful long-term investment of the right people, partnerships, processes and culture. I look forward to leading an open discussion with some of the world's top device manufacturing executives and discovering how they are leading their organizations to a higher level."
Frost & Sullivan's 18th Annual Medical Devices Executive Mind Xchange will take place in San Diego, California March 10-12, 2013. Learn more or register for the conference.
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At Stratos, we know a cohesive, experienced team of developers can't be built overnight. For 25 years, we've been building a superior ecosystem for innovative product development. Expert industrial designers, researchers, software developers, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing and quality engineers and professional project managers are here to support your next product development challenge. Our collaborative, cross-discipline approach enables us to reduce time-to-market, maximize product opportunities and create compelling product solutions for users and unmet needs in the marketplace. We partner with clients worldwide, from start-up companies to Fortune 500 corporations.
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The third installment of this Siemens webinar series is intended to show machine tool users how similar the functionality is between creating programs in ShopMill, G-code with programGuide mode, importing from a CAD/CAM system, or running programs previously created for an ISO-style control. The webinar, which will be presented on Thursday, August 22 at 2:00 PM EDT, will take one part example show it programmed in all four ways. It will then run each of them in auto mode. Once completed, attendees will have an excellent understanding of what it takes to program and run a Siemens Sinumerik CNC from programs created both inside and outside of the control.
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Author Notes: I only started eating pesto 2 years ago when I got pregnant. So I tried it with everything. Pizza has always been a favorite in our home. My husband puts bacon on EVERYTHING so naturally bacon was added. Mozzarella is my cheese of choice.....which I partly blame for my weight gain while pregnant.My son now eats it plain as a snack!I This pizza is great as a appetizer or paired with your favorite salad! —calmama08
Serves: 4
Prep your pizza ingredients
strips hickory smoked bacon
medium sized italian sausages
cups fresh mozzarella cheese
clove of garlic/crushed
medium size white onion/chopped
- cook bacon until almost done, drain grease, chop and set aside. Wipe out excessive grease from pan
- remove sausages from casings, tear of small chunks and throw in heated pan used for cooking bacon.
- place onion in pan with sausage until soft and sausage is no longer pink, drain fat. set aside with bacon
- grate mozzarella
Assemble pizza
balls of fresh pizza dough
jar of 365 Everyday pesto sauce
jar sliced and drained black olives
- *fresh pizza dough can typically be found at your local natural food store. Roll out each ball on a lightly floured surface. pinch edges to form your crust
- generously spread pesto sauce onto dough, leaving room on the outside for the pizza crust
- divide mozzarella in half, spread onto each pizza
- half bacon and sausage, sprinkle on individual pizzas
- spread crushed garlic, onion and black olives over pizzas
- place in pre-heated oven for 12- 17 minutes depending on pizza size. Remove when cheese is melted and crust is golden brown!
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 5th Aug 2011 16:08 UTC
A couple of days ago I read a blog post by Stephen Ramsay, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Fellow at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In it, he mentions that he has all but abandoned the GUI and finds the command line to be "faster, easier to understand, easier to integrate, more scalable, more portable, more sustainable, more consistent, and many, many times more flexible than even the most well-thought-out graphical apps." I found this very thought-provoking, because, like Ramsay, I spend a lot of time thinking about "The Future of Computing," and I think that the CLI, an interface from the past, might have a place in the interface of the future.


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PRODUCTION: Art as Catharsis; NYC Filmmakers Take to The Streets on Sept. 11
by Anthony Kaufman/indieWIRE
(indieWIRE/ 09.27.01) — New York City is home to hundreds, maybe thousands, of professional and would-be filmmakers, so it comes as no surprise that the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were captured on cameras, from all angles and every neighborhood. Documentarians, media artists and just about anyone with a digital video camera suddenly found themselves amidst the biggest story of their lives, taking to the rooftops and the streets to catch the action. indieWIRE talked to a sampling of people who grabbed their cameras on Sept. 11 and the days that followed, and found several common threads: the conflict between creative expression and exploitation, the need to capture history, and the important human stories that will trickle out in the days and years to come.
"You just had to document it," explained filmmaker Michelle Handelman, who, like many, immediately picked up her camera and went to the roof after first hearing the news. "I was compelled."
Aaron Edison, a filmmaker and freelance cameraman, also couldn't help but document the events. Edison took his PD 150 digital camera and slowly made his way down Manhattan. "It was completely surreal," he said. "I realized it was a piece of history and about as big an event as I'd ever witnessed. I got the first World Trade Center crash, and then it dawned on me: there was a potential, longer story."
Edison discovered the event was more than simply about the numbing images of plane crashes and building collapses. His Iranian-American roommate happened to be one of the artists who shared studio space in the World Trade Center on the 92nd floor, as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (which is now, needless to say, in ruins and lost one of its artists Michael Richards). Edison plans to make a documentary about the international community of artists once housed on the 92nd floor.
"The important work of healing and processing is going to be in these longer stories," commented Edison. "One of the strange things people on the frontlines realized was that there weren't going to be survivors; there weren't even going to be corpses. You didn't see human beings injured; you saw scenes from a disaster movie. The moments of shocking humanity came from strange places, like the papers, the volcano of papers, floating around." Edison continued, "After the big pictures, we now need real behind-the-scenes stories."
Sean Adair, an experienced documentary and freelance filmmaker, who is currently helping Edison with his documentary project, was one of few people to capture detailed images of the second plane's impact. After discovering his videocamera's batteries weren't charged, Adair picked up his 35mm still camera and went up to his roof in Stuyvesant Town on 20th street. "I just had the urge to look at it more closely," he said. "I'm not a newshound or disaster chaser."
Adair sold his photographs to Reuters just days after the attack, begging the question: was he exploiting the tragedy for his own financial gain? "I did have some thoughts about it," Adair admitted. "But as time goes on, people have to see these images." Adair also said, "Being a freelancer and not making huge amounts of money and with jobs canceled that week, I didn't feel dirty. I'm going to take this money and spend it, and keep this economy rolling."
While Adair may seem hardened, three days after the attacks, he said he broke down when coming face to face with someone near the Trade Center in desperate search of a loved one. "That's when I had my moment of grief," he added. Adair has since begun helping on another project, "The Art of Peace," a film that was already in-progress before the attacks.
Ralph Ackerman, "a documenter" and 38-year vet of street and underground filmmaking, took his miniDV camera with him every day to record what he ran into. "One small young girl came up to me on the subway when I was taping and told me I was insensitive to the victims," he related. But Ackerman was not daunted: his urge to record the events comes from experiences covering rallies in the 1960s. "If you were an anti-war protestor," he said, "officials would confiscate the film and make their own versions of it. We learned a long time ago that when the shit hits the fan, you have to go out and document it yourself and protect the footage."
Some filmmakers, however, couldn't bring themselves to tape the devastation. "I couldn't bear to even look at it live on the street, much less take out my camera," documentarian Doug Block ("Home Page") stated in an e-mail. "I stayed home with my family and was glued to the TV set. I haven't done a lick of work on my new doc since then. I turned down a grisly job offer from the BBC to shoot an agonized mother as she waited for any word of her missing son."
Independent filmmaker Maya Churi ("Letters from Home Room," and a former indieWIRE editor) also felt queasy about videotaping. "After about 10 minutes we got out the cameras, but I didn't like filming," she related. "It didn't feel good at all. There are some things, the tragedy and pain of others, which I don't think should be filmed unless you are a reporter, and I am not. Therefore, something about it felt exploitive and I stopped."
Missy Galore, a multimedia artist, on the other hand, was among those who took to the streets with her camera, and like Edison, Adair, and Ackerman, she believes that documenting the events of Sept. 11 was essential. (She's planning, along with others, to create a commemorative project from the footage.) "It's really important that we have these images. These are amazing moments of history that we can't forget," she explained, her eyes wet with tears. "I'm so glad we went down there. I'm so glad that I could see what it looked like when the world was covered with ash. . . . Art is such a catharsis."
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Diamond Backs Begin Fall Practice
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The Arkansas Razorback baseball team returns to the field on Friday as it begins fall practice. The first practice of the fall is set for 2 p.m. at Baum Stadium. All Razorback baseball practices and scrimmages are open to the public.
The opening weekend of fall practice will also include a pair of scrimmages. The Razorbacks will scrimmage on Saturday at approximately 11:30 a.m., while Sunday's scrimmage will begin at approximately 2 p.m.
The fall season culminates with the annual Cardinal-White series. Dates and game times for the series will be announced at a later date.


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